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TIL Only humans have a uvula

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5YkwQ TIL that when a super group made up of the world's most famous musicians came together to record "We Are the World" in 1985, Stevie Wonder announced that if the group did not finish the song in one take, he and Ray Charles would drive everyone home.
nep0r TIL a man called Roger Sperry performed brain experiments on cats and monkeys. He found that if the two brain hemispheres were not connected they would function independently of one another, and even enable the split-brain of the animals to memorize double the information.
1abPW TIL about the Bushy Tree diagram, a retrospective and interactive history of visual interactive computing systems
5YgMr TIL that Walt Disney wanted to add a scene to Bambi showing the burned corpse of the hunter who shot Bambi's mother.
7rLb TIL The longest free-fall in history was 102,800 feet, done by Joseph Kittinger. He fell from outer-space, reaching a speed of 614 mph.